Tying It Together: Discovery Streaming, Glogster, and Google Earth

I attended a session at the Discovery Education Network pre-conference at Pete&C called Creative Construction with Digital Media.  In this session Traci Blazosky showed us how we can use Discovery Education, Glogster, and Google Earth together. 

Here’s the Idea

Step 1

You can create an assignment in the Assignment Builder on Discovery Education.  When you are finished creating the assignment, you want to “Assign by Code or URL”.   You want to use the URL because this is automatically fills in the code for the students when they click it. 

Step 2

You can create a glog on Glogster and link something to that assignment.

Step 3

You can embed the glog into a placemark on Google Earth. ** (see screenshots below)

Let’s Apply It

Imagine you are doing a lesson on Europe.  With Google Earth, you could create a virtual tour of European nations.  But, with Glogster and Discovery Streaming, we can take it a step further.

First, you can create an assignment for each European Nation on Discovery Education.  Each assignment can start with a video or image and can include various questions.  Next, you want to create a Glog for each nation and link to the assignment in the Glog.  You can present other information in the Glog as well, such as text and images.  Finally, you can create a tour in Google Earth that will visit each of the nations.  You can embed the Glog in the placemark for the corresponding location.

Don’t Use the First Embed Code You See

When you first publish you Glog, you will see the box below.  You DO NOT want to use the embed code you see here for Google Earth.  It will not work properly.

You want to click on “View This Glog”

Then, look for the box you see below.

Now, click on “Embed into you page”

You will see the box below.

THIS is the code you want to use to embed you Glog into a Google Earth Placemark.